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  • I haven’t had luck or even tried. Mostly, people won’t know what RCS implies. But there are still important differences that Signal brings to the table. Signal is not merely E2EE on communications. Signal is actually a combination of many privacy protocols to ensure private communications, where E2EE is only one of them. They have a lot of protocol innovations in key exchanges, group management, metadata storage, contact discovery, etc. RCS does not guarantee E2EE, it needs to be implemented by the ISPs, so using it you don’t really know if the other end’s ISP supports it, so the RCS negotiation will downgrade to the common denominator.






  • Are you looking for arguments against Signal?

    I think the biggest one everyone will find and is very difficult to overcome is “My friends aren’t there”.

    Other arguments like “it’s centralized”, “It’s in the US”, “It doesn’t have feature X”, “The client app doesn’t have fancy stickers” are workable, have explanations or are a matter of time.

    Thos saying “It needs to support SMS”, are americans that weren’t really using signal, but a glorified text app.



  • The analogy of simply choosing different software doesn’t apply here. Because I can switch my os or calculator app. Those choices don’t depend on other people. Sadly, we still depend on being able to read content that other parties we care for still publish on Twitter even though I disagree with it as a to. Maybe they do or dont care. I can disagree with Twitter and like my influencers. For that, something like nitter is a good step in the direction. I want to move. As muchas I’d like to snap my fingers and have everyone into my network of personal choice. It cannot happen.